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Logrotate: error reading top line of /var/lib/logrotate.status

By Ram Prasad on March 23, 2004 1:18 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

If you get an error saying

/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:

error: error reading top line of /var/lib/logrotate.status

delete /var/lib/logrotate.status, and then run logrotate once with -f flag, like

 #> logrotate -f /etc/logrorate.d/syslog

This should initialize the status file and the error should not be repeating.